At work, AI tells sales reps which accounts they should be pursuing and helps lawyers instantly analyze piles of contracts. Is it any wonder that we're starting to think it might be OK if the machines take over? A recent global survey found that 64 percent of more than 8,000 respondents said they didn't just embrace AI -- they would actually trust it more than their manager. Tony Deigh, chief technology officer at the Cambridge machine-learning-based employment platform Jobcase, understands this impulse. As AI gets better at recognizing complicated patterns from huge troves of data, it could conceivably be applied to many roles, like being a boss. "Would I take career advice from a machine?

Have you ever commiserated with your colleagues that your boss acts like an automaton? This soon might be more than just a figure of speech – and some employees don't necessarily think that would be a bad thing. By 2030, up to 800 million workers around the world could be replaced by machines. The fear of rampaging robots isn't just restricted to jobs. Leaders in emerging technology, such as Elon Musk, have suggested artificial intelligence (AI) is "a fundamental risk to the existence of civilization."

A common refrain in the media is that people don't like their boss and people are scared of robots. So I wondered about the truth and nuance to these emotions: how many people would prefer a robot to their boss? The old saying goes, "People join a company, but they leave a bad boss." As Gallup research demonstrates, 70% of how we feel about work--our emotional commitment--is driven by who our manager is. The ongoing employee engagement crisis is largely about managers who know how to manage tasks, but don't know how to lead people. And there is also growing press coverage about automation and the emergence of robots in the workplace.

Would you go into business with a robot? Whatever the reason, Brits are currently loving their artificial intelligence, so much so that a new study has found that 53% of employed workers would be happy to work for a robot. Perhaps ironically, nearly 1 in 10 believe that the smart technology company would be more enjoyable company than that of a human colleague. But watch out entrepreneurs, as almost a third of Brits (32%) would welcome a robot CEO. And it seems that Millennials are the generation welcoming such radical moves with 8 out of 10 surveyed happy to bring technology into the office whereas only 6% of baby boomers would trust a robot. The news is therefore slightly at odds with a previous survey commissioned by the government who found more than 6million UK workers were afraid that their roles would be replaced by machines in the near future.

Hitachi became an instant sensation when it displayed its first robot in an IT Fair in 1970. Ever since, this Japanese technology company has made great strides in Artificial Intelligence (AI), and more recently, in Machine Learning enabled AI research, as demonstrated through their successive applications in robotics. After 45 years of tireless AI research and product development, Hitachi again made the headlines across global media when it announced the arrival of a Robot Boss on the company's shop floor. This Artificial Intelligence story is changing the way enterprises understand AI in the modern data-evolved world. The Robot Boss is a powerful machine supervisor can allocate work to employees in the most efficient manner based on the employee's past performance.

A number of recent studies predict that robots will replace millions of human workers as artificial intelligence continues to evolve. In a way, none of this is new: Technological advances often result in a reduced need for human employees. Manufacturers have been using automation for many decades, and in more recent years, states have been phasing out human tollbooth operators in favor of electronic, cashless toll systems. However, the prospect of being replaced by an intelligent machine strikes a particularly foreboding nerve in many people. It doesn't matter if that "machine" is an algorithm-driven software program running on enterprise IT infrastructures or actual, physical robots imbued with artificial intelligence (AI).